Description

WearLock is the first app for Android Wear that unlocks your phone by just wearing you watch. It uses various motion sensors to decide when you are wearing your watch, and when your not. No more having your watch charging on your desk leaving your phone open to exploitation or peeking eyes. If your watch runs out of battery or travels out of range of bluetooth your phone will automatically lock as well.

It is important to open the app on the watch at least once or it will not work!

Lock with a pin or a full text password. (Pattern and other lock styles are not enabled as they require root).

This is the first release so please send feedback through email mlatman@gmail.com and do not leave a bad review if everything does not work properly.

Please uninstall using the "Uninstall" button on the phone app.

My review

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Reviews

3.8

42 total

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2 5

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Gary Peters

Decent I've bee using this app for some time now, and find it very convenient. It can annoy you at times when you get far enough away from your watch for some reason, and it tries to lock the phone on you. But I don't see a way around that really. It's just doing what its supposed to.

Robert Rasmussen

Battery drain Whenever it unlocks my phone due to it detecting my wear's movement, it turns on my screen in an unlocked state (home screen) on my Note 3. This is really annoying since it's a huge battery drain, even though the phone has a very large battery.

Thomas Henrik Hedegaard Reistad

Good It is a great app but I would like to be able to lock the phone from my smartwatch.

Justin Pierznik

Fix bug Bug causes phone to unlock at random.

Bryan Stine

Pretty good Like this a lot, gives us wear unlocking before Google managed to do it. However, had to disable it on the L preview due to getting locked out of my device repeatedly. Seems to be due to notifications triggered while the watch is disconnected. Oh well... Thanks for the great app!

Paul Dlugonski

Screen keeps waking up After installing my S4 screen keeps waking up off and on causing unwanted functions to happen because my phone is in my pocket. I'll feel my phone getting warm and when I pul it out my camera screen is on (and sometimes black photos taken), or my alarm clock settings, or another app. I have set out my phone to observe its behavior and sure enough, the screen will come on for a while (long enough for accidental touching of the screen) and then turn off. When it does this it kills my battery life.

User reviews

Gary Peters April 30, 2015

Decent I've bee using this app for some time now, and find it very convenient. It can annoy you at times when you get far enough away from your watch for some reason, and it tries to lock the phone on you. But I don't see a way around that really. It's just doing what its supposed to.

Battery drain Whenever it unlocks my phone due to it detecting my wear's movement, it turns on my screen in an unlocked state (home screen) on my Note 3. This is really annoying since it's a huge battery drain, even though the phone has a very large battery.

Pretty good Like this a lot, gives us wear unlocking before Google managed to do it. However, had to disable it on the L preview due to getting locked out of my device repeatedly. Seems to be due to notifications triggered while the watch is disconnected. Oh well... Thanks for the great app!

Screen keeps waking up After installing my S4 screen keeps waking up off and on causing unwanted functions to happen because my phone is in my pocket. I'll feel my phone getting warm and when I pul it out my camera screen is on (and sometimes black photos taken), or my alarm clock settings, or another app. I have set out my phone to observe its behavior and sure enough, the screen will come on for a while (long enough for accidental touching of the screen) and then turn off. When it does this it kills my battery life.

Great support from dev! Only displays a full-sized keyboard during setup. But fear not! If you set a 4-digit PIN the keyboard in the lock screen will turn into a numeric keypad, as I was told by the dev.

Excellent! almost perfect I seldom write reviews on apps, but this one is actually really good, it works well, it does what it's supposed to. The developer is actually really understanding and when i sent him an email with requests/criticisms, he took them into consideration. Worth it!

Screen wakes up on its own Two issues. 1. Screen wakes up on its own, even though there is no notification or any activity. 2. I get a message that "watch is taken off" or something similar while the watch is on my wrist. It still bypasses the lock screen but it's annoying.

Works Great But I wonder it you always use you Android Wear device to unlock the phone can you end out forgetting the password? I tested it by putting my Gear Live into Airplane mode, locks the Note 3. Now when I came out of Airplane mode on the watch it did not automatically unlock the Note 3; Any idea why? Ran the app from the watch and it unlocked the device. Like it, love it actually.

It works! I know Android L is suppose to come with a feature similar but having it before L drops good job! I have ideas for improvements and suggestions to make it better for example don't lock when I'm home, and I'm sure you know it's very delayed. I'll take my watch off and I'll still be able to get in for about 2 mins before it realizes my watch isn't on me anymore or I'm in airplane mode.